docs: def wiki(searchterm):
      """return the top wiki search result for the term"""
      searchterm = quote(searchterm)
  
      url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch={0}&format=json"
      url = url.format(searchterm)
  
      result = requests.get(url).json()
  
      pages = result["query"]["search"]
  
      # try to reject disambiguation pages
      pages = [p for p in pages if 'may refer to' not in p["snippet"]]
  
      if not pages:
          return ""
  
      page = quote(pages[0]["title"].encode("utf8"))
      link = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{0}".format(page)
  
      r = requests.get(
          "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=parse&page={0}".
          format(page)).json()
      soup = BeautifulSoup(r["parse"]["text"]["*"], "html5lib")
      p = soup.find('p').get_text()
      p = p[:8000]
  
      return u"{0}\n{1}".format(p, link)